The Pedestrian Pound (third edition) A new edition of this well-regarded resource, updating and expanding the evidence that creating streets to support walking and wheeling can provide benefits for local economies, health, community and the environment. Transport for Quality of Life was commissioned by Living Streets to refresh its well-respected report The Pedestrian Pound – expanding…
Transforming transport funding – how to fill the budget black hole and simultaneously reduce transport related climate emissions Our radical transport policy two-pagers aim to open up discussion of transport policy beyond the current narrow terms of debate. Big changes are needed in the way we organise and fund transport. We hope our two-pagers will…
A joint summary paper written in 2019 by Transport for Quality of Life and the Department for Transport on the results of three active travel investment models (known as the CWIS model) to estimate the impact of a range investment scenarios, on national levels of cycling, walking and walking to school.
Investing in public transport and active travel has greater potential to increase prosperity than road investment and has social and environmental advantages.
Fix Your Bike voucher scheme evaluation The Department for Transport commissioned Transport for Quality of Life, the University of Westminster and Sustrans to evaluate the Fix Your Bike scheme, which distributed 400,000 vouchers to members of the public, giving them £50 off bike servicing and repair. The evaluation found that, as well as attracting existing cyclists,…
The UK cycle industry: current economic and employment benefits and its decarbonisation-driven growth potential The Bicycle Association commissioned Transport for Quality of Life to update its 2018 study on the economic benefits of local cycling investment in the UK. The analysis showed that cycling and the cycle industry in the UK in 2019 provided an…
The economic benefits of local cycling investment: Greater London case study The Bicycle Association commissioned Transport for Quality of Life to estimate the economic benefits of local cycling investment in Greater London. The analysis showed that the wider benefits of cycling, combined with the direct value of cycling products and services and estimates of cycle…
Summary and synthesis of evidence: Cycle City Ambition programme 2013-2018 The Cycle City Ambition (CCA) programme provided £191m to eight cities. The evaluation found that cycling increased in all eight cities, with part of the city-wide increase attributable to CCA investment. Eight of twelve infrastructure schemes evaluated at scheme level showed cycling increases likely to be…
Reducing the carbon gap for car transport in Wales The Welsh Government commissioned Transport for Quality of Life and Arup to assess the level of mode shift targets required in the Wales Transport Strategy, Llwybr Newydd (2021) in order to meet climate change commitments. The reports assessed the carbon gap that will need to be…
Every village, every hour: a comprehensive bus network for rural England This report for the Campaign to Protect Rural England shows that for less expenditure than the government’s road-building programme. England could have a world-leading rural bus network matching Swiss standards that guarantee every village of more than three hundred people at least an hourly…